Re: uuids on freebsd - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Lee Lambert
Subject Re: uuids on freebsd
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Msg-id 45ee757a-89b6-4e61-ab3b-97b605f4f7ff@f13g2000yqj.googlegroups.com
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In response to uuids on freebsd  (Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>)
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On Dec 17, 2:30 pm, Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> wrote:
> Has anyone ever managed to get uuid generation working on FreeBSD? [...]
>
> ([...] The only solution I could come up with was to knock
> off a quick uuid-freebsd module that uses the base system uuid
> functions rather than the ossp ones. I could put this on pgfoundry if
> there isn't likely to be a real fix in the near future.)

+1 for putting it on pgFoundry.

I managed to hack the old contrib/uuid so it would use the functions
from Linux e2fs uuid on 8.0/8.1/8.2.  I might have time soon to see if
I can get that to work on 8.3.

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DLL


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